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Leaders' Questions (17 Feb 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: The Taoiseach asked if I knew the garda and the reason he had written to me.

Leaders' Questions (17 Feb 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: I have repeatedly been interrupted.

Leaders' Questions (17 Feb 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: Am I allowed to ask a question about policing and what the Taoiseach said?

Leaders' Questions (17 Feb 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: That is what I am doing. This is unbelievable.

Leaders' Questions (17 Feb 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: The point the garda makes in his letter is that gardaí are being asked to go to civil protests in the heart of communities to act on behalf of the Government in the implementation of water charges and on behalf of companies in the installation of water meters. Many gardaí are not happy in doing this. Far from defending the Garda last week, the Taoiseach was defending Government...

Leaders' Questions (17 Feb 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: Why has no one been arrested?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Bullying in Schools (17 Feb 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: 427. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of all girl secondary schools; the number of all boy secondary schools; and the number of co-educational secondary schools at which the ShoutOut anti-homophobic and transphobic bullying workshop was conducted between 2012 and 2015. [6636/15]

Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: For the Tánaiste's information, there is one TD in this House who was very badly manhandled on that protest, Deputy Paul Murphy. Would the Tánaiste express her sympathy with him? That is shown on some of the video footage as well. On Tuesday, the Tánaiste grievously betrayed women suffering the trauma of fatal foetal abnormality by her stance.

Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: Today, she brazenly comes in here and continues to stand over the hounding of an entire working class community. These actions will definitely backfire. People will boycott the water charges, which is essentially what this is about. The Tánaiste is trying to demonise protestors at a key time in the battle against water charges, but this will rebound. I have no doubt that the...

Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: What has that got to do with water charges?

Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: It is a 16 year old.

Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: I never referred to the gardaí as "dogs". I was using a figure of speech.

Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: If the dawn chorus over there could stay quiet for a minute, I was using a figure of speech - not referring to the gardaí.

Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: I am sorry, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle, but the expression I used was "Call off the dogs of war on people in Jobstown". It was nothing to do with the gardaí.

Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: For four days in a row, there have been unprecedented Garda operations in west Tallaght. Dawn raids have taken place on 17 homes without any of the appointments made with the Anglo Irish Bank three who brought this country to financial ruin.

Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: Ordinary men, women and, in legal terms, children have been arrested in front of their families and neighbours, including three elected representatives of the Anti-Austerity Alliance. How does it sit with the Tánaiste that complaints she made against people who protested her visit to Jobstown in November have resulted in these outrageous raids by entire squads of gardaí, trawling...

Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: Is the Tánaiste comfortable that 14, 15, 16 and 17 year olds have been arrested? As we speak, a 15 year old is missing a day of school.

Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: The Tánaiste claims she is concerned about education, but she has said nothing about the school that child is missing-----

Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: -----because he or she might have taken part in a protest against the Tánaiste.

Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)

Ruth Coppinger: The talk in Jobstown is that a message will be sent out soon for the first born in every family to be rounded up to please the Tánaiste. Is her wounded political vanity so precious that she needs this vindictive attempt to criminalise an entire working class community in this way? Hundreds of decent people in Jobstown and Tallaght who took part in a protest are in genuine fear that...